~ The County Gentleman and Land & Water, November 20, 1915
“Special Discount off all Jig-Saw Puzzles sold for use of Wounded Sailors and Soldiers”
~ Salaspin, July 1917
via Grace’s Guide
“Replaces German aspirin”
Notes from aspirin history: Bayer, a German company, first patented Aspirin on February 27, 1900. The name Aspirin came from the ‘A” in acetyl chloride, the “spir” in spiraea ulmaria (the plant they derived the salicylic acid from) and the ‘in’ was a then familiar name ending for medicines.
Aspirin was first sold as a powder. In 1915, the first Aspirin tablets were made. Interestingly, Aspirin ® and Heroin ® were once trademarks belonging to Bayer. After Germany lost World War I, Bayer was forced to give up both trademarks as part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. (source)
~ “An advert for a Decca portable gramophone. This appeared in the UK press during World War I, 1914 - 1918. The gramophone illustrated in the advert is a Decca Junior, sometimes known as a ‘Trench Model’.”
via Flickr
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~ Harbutt’s Fibrous Plasticine; The English Review, December 1915
via Internet Archive
“A small piece made into a plug and placed in each ear effectually cuts up the nerve-shattering concussions of high explosives, and so prevents that terribly distressing form of deafness that so often follows an action.”
~ The Prime Minister’s Advice to the Young Unmarried Men and Pledge to Married Men; London, England, 1915
via Library and Archives Canada
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~ Patriotic Rooster Sale, Stock Exchange, Toronto; Friday January 25, 1918
via Library and Archives Canada
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“The Following and Other Rhode Island Red Roosters will be Sold for the High Dollar
King George V.: Needs no description. He is bred in the purple, wears the blue and is red all over. If you expect to own the King bring along a check with four figures or more. Kings are getting scarce. Better get in on this deal with the ‘getting in’ is good.
Come and Help Make this the Greatest Rooster Sale Ever Held on Earth”
~ British and German Airships and Aeroplanes, c. 1914-1918
via Museum of London
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“…do not touch unexploded bombs.”
